Berge’s Better Tomorrow
Let's talk about life. Your life, my life, everyone's lives, and how we can learn from each other to benefit our own mental and behavioral health. Mental health is just as important as our physical health, yet it is not treated as so. This podcast is hopeful in breaking the stigma around mental health. Not every episode is heavy-hearted (suicide awareness, various mental illnesses, etc.), nor is every episode light-hearted (advice, funny late-night thoughts, etc.), but in every episode, there is something to learn. The content comes from a variety of sources whether clinical research or someone’s very own personal experience. We all go through hard times throughout life, so I want to teach you some ways to make those times a little less hard. Every week there will be a new activity for you to try that could be useful or enjoyable to better your mental health. It can be easy to fall back into the same, destructive pattern but I encourage you to recognize you are not stuck in that way of thinking. Each day you have the opportunity to adjust your way of thinking and what may be helping you could help someone else, so it is important to speak about it. This podcast is set to challenge and expand our way of thinking by allowing us to become more self-aware of ourselves and those around us: you can’t change what you don’t acknowledge, but you can’t acknowledge what you don’t know.
Berge’s Better Tomorrow
Mental health education for our youth
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In this episode, I talk about the impact that having a mental health curriculum in our education system would look like and why it is important. We are our environment. If we give our children an environment that prioritizes their mental well-being, they will grow up wanting to prioritize it. Just like math, how it is taught at different ages that make sense for that age group, we would do the same for mental health education. According to the Center for Disease Control, in 2020 suicide was the second leading cause of death in ages 10-14. That is a clear sign there is an issue with how our youth is handling their mental health and they need to be educated on what they are going through and how to help themselves or others. For this week's activity, I want you to either email btbettertomorrow@gmail.com or go to www.btbettertomorrow.com and scroll to the bottom where you can leave me a message, and let me know your thoughts on this topic. What do you wish you learned about mental health when you grew up? How would this have impacted you or someone in your life? If you could speak to someone who has the power to make this change, what would you bring up? Whatever it is TELL ME I want to know and get more opinions outside of my views to bring on this issue.